UN Gives Canada A Failing Grade On Housing

Published: October 23, 2007, 9:39 pm

Tags: neoliberalism, 2010 vancouver olympics, homelessness, miloon kothari, un, stephen harper, canada, canadian politics, paul martin, poverty

(h/t F-email Fightback) Miloon Kothari, UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, has spent the past two weeks in Canada conducting a cross-country fact-finding mission on homelessness. ‘Underwhelmed‘ doesn’t begin to describe his reaction. According to the Toronto Star, Kothari believes “[a]n ambitious national housing program and a strategy to combat poverty is urgently needed to tackle the disaster-like conditions of homelessness and inadequate housing found across the country.” More from the Star: “What is beginning here has already happened in the U.S., where you speak to people (and) they say, `the homeless are there by choice,’ or `it’s those drug addicts,’” Kothari said in an interview yesterday. “That is a very serious mental shift.” […] During his visit, he travelled to Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Montreal as well as aboriginal reserves. He visited shelters, talked to housing

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